Lite Remix of 3030 T-slot Removable Squash Ball Vibration Dampener Foot

This is lite version of Liouma's squash ball foot. Various cutouts have been designed in to this remix to reduce filament use and print time. This foot uses standard 40mm dia. squash balls. It can be installed and locked into, or uninstalled and removed from the T-slot channel without the need of disassembling your printer.

Print this remix with supports, they are necessary and easy to remove. However, be careful when removing the support material underneath the wing tabs of the locking mechanism; if you pry up at all, you can snap off the whole locking tab. Also it is very important to realize that once you have positioned an locked on a foot, the printer can only be move or repositioned by lifting straight up an placing the printer straight down – if you slide the printer on a surface, the grippy squash balls want to remain in place an lateral force will be applied to the locking tabs, which can easily be snapped off, making the foot loose.

Tree style supports work nicely and reduce the filament used by ~3 grams, compared with a line support pattern. Cura slicer has this option built in.

I have included a tool that helps with rotating the locking mechanism, and which is less likely to mar or chew up the locking slot (compared with using a coin or a screwdriver).

As mentioned, this design reduces the filament and print time as follows:

Original model: [line supports] 27g / 9.13m @ 100% infill @ 0.16mm line height
Original model: [tree supports] 24g / 8.16m @ 100% infill @ 0.16mm line height
Lite Remix model: [tree supports] 16g / 5.44m @ 100% infill @ 0.16mm line height

This is a remix of Liouma's "Squash ball feet: the most efficient system for Prusa i3 MK3/MK3S/MK3S+ or any 30 extrusion based printer, 100% printable" :

https://www.printables.com/model/227986-squash-ball-feet-the-most-efficient-system-for-pru

NOTE: I didn't print one because it wouldn't fit my Creality printer; I am working on a remix that will fit 2020 extrusion t-slot bars, such as the Creality Ender 5.